Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:27:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: libc functions handling of UNCs
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> >Btw, why did you at all tried to call `ls' with the UNC?  "ls f:"
> >should have worked, AFAIK, and that is how `ls' and other DJGPP
> >programs are supposed to work.
> 
> In the last paragraph of my post, I mentioned that this was the same
> behaviour I 'm experiencing when we use fnsplit and fnmerge, where the
> problem was detected at first at all.

The same question pertains to `fnsplit': why not use the usual DOS
d:/path syntax?  What's so special in the UNC that you needed to use
it in this case?

(`fnsplit' is a compatibility function anyway, it was never meant to
handle UNCs at all.)